Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790

Seamus Deane

Strange Country

Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790

Seamus Deane

Description

This book identifies the origin, the development and, ultimately, the success of the Irish literary tradition in English as one of the first literatures that is both national and colonial. It demonstrates the remarkable relationships between works as diverse as Joyce's Dubliners and Bram Stoker's Dracula, and the worlds of the French Revolution and the Irish famine. Deane also shows how almost all the activities of Irish print culture--novels, songs, typefaces, historical analyses, poems--struggle within the limits imposed by its inheritance.

Strange Country

Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790

Seamus Deane

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements1. Phantasmal France, Unreal Ireland: Sobering Reflections2. National Character and the Character of Nations3. Control of Types, Types of Control: the Gothic, the Occult, the Crowd4. Boredom and Apocalypse: A National ParadigmBibliographyIndexAcknowledgements1. Phantasmal France, Unreal Ireland: Sobering Reflections2. National Character and the Character of Nations3. Control of Types, Types of Control: the Gothic, the Occult, the Crowd4. Boredom and Apocalypse: A National ParadigmBibliographyIndex